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top gun
noun
- Slang. a person who is the best or one of the best in a particular field; the top-ranked person in a group.
- an ace fighter pilot.
Example Sentences
Val Kilmer is joking around in his trailer on the set of Top Gun, pretending to bark demands into a packet of More cigarettes as if it's a phone and he's talking to the studio boss.
Kilmer took his video camera everywhere to film behind the scenes, and picked these snapshots of the carefree tomfoolery on the Top Gun set in 1985 as the opening shots for a 2021 documentary about his life.
Top Gun was a breakthrough for Kilmer, who played Iceman, the rival to Cruise's hotshot Maverick at the US Navy's academy for elite fighter pilots.
Many of the cast had remained friends after the original film, Tubb says, and Rossovich's home in the Hollywood Hills became the "Top Gun club house".
The presentation closed with an appearance by Cruise, who asked the audience for a moment of silence in honor of his “Top Gun†co-star Val Kilmer, who died earlier this week.
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